6 Effective Ways to Prevent Degenerative Diseases

Your health is influenced by viruses and bacteria, your genes and your environment – which are not all within your control. But lifestyle factors also play an important role in developing and preventing illness. Have a look at some simple steps you can take to significantly improve your health and prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other age-related disease.

1. Reach and Keep A Health Weight

Reaching a desirable body weight is a huge first step in improving your health and resistance to preventable degenerative diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, periodontal gum disease, macular degeneration, and other age-related maladies.

You can find many charts online that calculate your body mass index (BMI) based on your height and weight. To fall in a healthful range, your BMI should be between 18.5 and 24.9. Reducing your body weight decreases the stress on your cardiovascular system and also lowers your risk to heart disease, since fatty tissues contain high levels of reactive oxygen species called free radicals. These free radicals age your cardiovascular system, cause deposits of plaque in your arteries, and damage your DNA, resulting in several types of cancer.

Therefore, having a lower body mass and less fatty tissue reduces the number of free radicals in your body, which in turn reduces the aging of your body and improves your protection against these degenerative diseases.

2. Begin a Regular Exercise Program

After consulting your physician or healthcare provider, you should start a regular exercise program. You don’t need to run a marathon or workout 8 hours in the gym every day. Just a sensible exercise program that includes aerobic exercise (which stimulates the cardiovascular system) and anaerobic (muscle-strengthening) exercise. And remember, you don’t need to do it all at once. Most health experts recommend 30 minutes of vigorous exercises three times a week. Your exercise program could include walking, hiking, running, aerobics, playing vigorous sports such as tennis and golf, and workouts in the gym. By exercising, you will burn calories that otherwise would be accumulated as body weight and reduce your BMI. Aerobic exercises also have the added benefit of suppressing your appetite.

3. Improve Your Diet

All of you know what happens to apples once they are sliced – they turn brown due to oxidation from free radicals. A common way to prevent this oxidation process is to pour lemon juice onto the slices, thereby keeping the apple slices looking fresh. Lemon juice contains vitamin C, an antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals and prevents damage to the apple slices. Similarly, this is the exactly what happens in the human body: free radicals are generated, causing aging of our bodies and age-related diseases such as cancer and heart disease.

As you probably guessed, our bodies also produced protective antioxidants that minimize damage from free radicals. How many antioxidants do our bodies produce ? Well, the levels depend on many factors: our genetics, our diet, stress levels, and such factors as sun exposure, radiation, exercise, and others. As it turns out, our diet is hugely influential on levels of these valuable antioxidants. And generally speaking, our Western fast-paced lifestyle with fast food diets increases our risk of getting cancer, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and other age-related diseases. Our bodies simply were not designed to eat the mass quantities of fried, fatty, and sugary foods we now consume. However, there is an answer to preventing the scary degenerative diseases. We need to replace these unhealthy fatty and sugary foods with raw food such as fresh fruits and vegetables since these are all foods contain high levels of natural antioxidants.

4. Have Your Body Antioxidant Level Scanned

Until about 8 years ago, it was almost impossible to know the actual state of our immune system and how well we were preventing degenerative diseases. Prior to that time it was possible to submit a blood or tissue sample to be subjected to an expensive and time-consuming laboratory analysis called HPLC to determine body antioxidant levels. However, due to cost factors and the fact that almost no one wanted to submit a painful and invasive blood and tissue samples to determine their antioxidants scores, very few people had much of an idea of how healthy they actually were.

All of this changed with the development and release of a small, portable machine that painlessly and inexpensively scans the palm of the hand to arrive at a skin antioxidant score. Also, this skin antioxidant score has been proven through hundreds of independent studies to prove a measure of overall body antioxidant scores. So wha this means is that for the first time we can now determine our body antioxidant scores non-invasively to see how well we are resisting aging processes and protecting ourselves against cancers and cardiovascular disease. But even more importantly, we can now quantitatively measure the changes we make in our lives such as reduce stress, improve diet, exercise, and environmental factors. This is certainly groundbreaking in that we can take steps to prevent these types of diseases. The antioxidants found in green tea make it one of the healthiest beverages which produce powerful effects in your body. The beneficial effects of it include improved brain function, loss of excess fat, reduced risk of cancer, and many other unbelievable benefits.

5. Take Dietary Supplements

Science has allowed us to take plants and concentrate their naturally occurring antioxidants into pill form so that we can vastly increase our antioxidant levels. Most of you are aware of vitamin and mineral supplements that promise to raise our antioxidant levels, however, until the advent of skin antioxidant scanner, no one could effectively know how well the supplements actually raise antioxidant levels nor would the manufacturers guarantee that the supplements were effective. Now that we have the scanner, we can answer these questions quantitatively. Moreover, we can also design supplements that are proven to raise body antioxidant scores and result in disease protection along with a money-back guarantee that your scores will increase.

6. Take Genetic Expression Supplements

Some of you may be aware that the US government poured billions of dollars into the Human Genome Project that was completed in the year 2000. this project allowed for the sequencing of genes contained in our DNA. It is these genes that produce (express) in a pattern that make each one of us the unique and individual that we are. Accordingly, many companies have identified single or groups of genes that Express these proteins in the attempt to determine which genes are responsible for certain characteristics and life processes. then we can influence these genes to change their activity, and therefore, our characteristics. While we cannot change our genes, we can indeed change their expression. One advanced company has identified 52 genes and our mitochondrial DNA involved with cellular energy processes that are responsible for natural aging processes.

A fitness enthusiast since her early childhood days and has always believed in the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Her mission is to teach people to lead a healthy life and raise awareness on the importance of general health, wellness, and fitness.